Address: N-6848 Fjærland, Norway Tel: +47 57 69 32 88 Fax: +47 57 69 32 87 E-mail: [email protected] www.bre.museum.no
An exciting museum in the heart of Fjord Norway
Through the hands-on exhibits, the breath-taking movie from the glacier, the climate exhibition, the mammoth sculptures and the outdoors educational playground, the museum is one of the most popular museums in Western Norway.
The Glacier Museum in the magnificent Fjærland scenery.
The Norwegian Glacier Museum is situated in Fjærland at the head of the narrowly, scenic Fjærlandsfjord, which is an arm of the Sognefjord. The village of Fjærland lies cradled between two particularly accessible glaciers, Bøyabreen and Supphellebreen. Both of them are outlets from the glacier Jostedalsbreen and are situated only 7 km from the fjord. You reach them easily by car or bus. Jostedalsbreen is the largest glacier on the European continent and its surroundings are a National Park.
Fjærland is also a book town. 14 picturesque shops have 300.000 second-hand books for sale in many languages.
The Norwegian Glacier Museum is a hands-on museum where the visitors do their own experiments, for instance with 1000 years old glacier ice from Supphellebreen. At the museum you also find answers to frequently asked questions, like "Why is glacier ice blue?" and "Why is the fjord green?". Our experience exhibition on climate changes - Our fragile climate – is spectacular, exciting and very popular among the visitors.
In the travel handbook “Norway”, published by Lonely Planet, the Glacier Museum is given an excellent presentation, see the last page. All exhibits are presented in Norwegian, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Russian, Polish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The climate exhibition is also presented in 11 different languages.
The museum is designed by architect professor Sverre Fehn who received the Pritzker award in 1997 - the highest international award an architect can get. The building has received several awards, including the highest Norwegian award for architecture.
The museum was opened by H.M. Queen Sonja of Norway in 1991.
Address: N-6848 Fjærland, Norway Tel: +47 57 69 32 88 Fax: +47 57 69 32 87 E-mail: [email protected] www.bre.museum.no
Entrance fee and information
Individuals Adults NOK 120 Children NOK 60 (4 – 16 years of age) Family NOK 270 (2 adults + children under 16 years)
Groups 10 - 19 pax: NOK 85 p.p.
A magic summer day in Fjærland. 20 - 99 pax: NOK 80 p.p.
All prices include VAT.
Guide and busdriver: Free entrance, coffee & waffel
Agreement on entrance fee For tour operators visiting us with more than 100 pax we can make an agreement on prices before the season starts. The price will depend on how many pax you expect to visit us with and the actual number of pax you have been visiting us with the last years. Please contact us if you want to make such a deal. We accept voucher as payment.
Booking and opening hours The breathtaking film we show from the glacier Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier on mainland Europe, combined with a hands-on exhibition and the experience exhibition about climate changes, makes us a very popular place to visit. Although the cinema can hold 160 persons, we recommend booking in advance in the high season. Groups usually spend 1-1½ h in the museum.
You can book by e-mail at [email protected] or using fax no: +47 57 69 32 87
The museum is open daily: June, July, August: 09.00-19.00 April, May, September, October: 10.00-16.00
If you need any further help or information, please contact director Mr. John Brekke, tel +47 57 69 32 87, mobile +47 976 80 228, or e-mail: [email protected]
Address: N-6848 Fjærland, Norway Tel: +47 57 69 32 88 Fax: +47 57 69 32 87 E-mail: [email protected] www.bre.museum.no
How to reach us
Distance from Fjærland to:
Bergen 250 km Lom 175 km Fagernes 205 ” Oslo 375 ” Flåm 105 ” Skei 30 ” Geiranger 180 ” Sogndal 35 ” Hellesylt 160 ” Stryn 105 ” Lillehammer 325 ” Voss 145 ”
Bøyabreen; the famous’drive-in’ glacier in Fjærland.
To Fjærland by ferry – a unique experience In high season there is a passanger ferry running daily between Balestrand and Fjærland.
Information on Fjærland, Fjord Norway and Norwegian Glacier Museum Norwegian Glacier Museum www.bre.museum.no Destination Fjærland www.fjaerland.org Visit Sognefjord www.sognefjord.no Destination Fjord Norway www.fjordnorway.com Norwegian Tourist Board www.visitnorway.com
Address: N-6848 Fjærland, Norway Tel: +47 57 69 32 88 Fax: +47 57 69 32 87 E-mail: [email protected] www.bre.museum.no
In the travel handbook “NORWAY”, published by Lonely Planet, the Glacier Museum is presented like this:
“The hands-on exhibits will delight children. You can learn how fjords are formed, see an excellent 20- minute multiscreen audio-visual presentation on Jostedalsbreen (so impressive that audiences often break into spontaneous applause at the end) and even see the tusk of a Siberian woolly mammoth, which met an icy demise 30,000 years ago. There's also an exhibit on the 5000-year-old 'Ice Man' corpse, which was found on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991.
Experiment with real glacier ice
The iceman Ötzi.
The newest of the museum’s themes is its multimedia (sounds, smoke, rumblings underfoot and more) exhibition, Our Fragile Climate. It leads you from the earth's creation via a tertiary era forest and the last ice age to the present - and on to the consequences of our contemporary overuse of the world’s resources. After a doomsday visual hypothesis, it ends on a note of qualified optimism as the breathy voice of Sir David Attenborough urges responsible, personal action to save our planet. In synopsis, it sounds preachy. On the spot, it’s stimulating and thought provoking”.
From the exhibition “Our Fragile Climate”